Archive for the ‘EBusiness’ Category

No updates for a month…

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Because I have been crankin on client stuff, twittering like mad (more on that later), facebooking, networking, trading tons of emails, working my neck off for my consulting client, planning one startup and launching the phase 1 of another... And it has taught me so much: Editorial is not an afterthought Trust ...

Old School - Gold Rush In Cyberspace

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

In 1995, while I was working in a bar and playing rounds of twilight, I came across this article which pretty much changed my life and got me into the business. Gold Rush in Cyberspace, a cover story written by Vic Sussman and Kenan Pollack in 1995 for US News ...

Loving this… Ringblender

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

Thanks to a Polyphonic Spree ad in Wired Magazine (who says advertising doesnt work) just found this: http://www.ringblender.com/blender.html This site allows fans of the band to take pre-selected tracks and samples and make their own ringtones, share them with friends and download to their phones. DIY? Check. Band that values its fans? ...

Gnomedex: Labor of Love as a business model

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

My favorite tech/social software/meeting cool people conference is HAPPENING. Gnomedex aims to be a tech zeitgeist - where today’s ideas and thinkers come together - although the direction of our conference may change in the following years. The conference industry certainly has affronted us several challenges, since we refuse to ...

“I think we can guilt them out into doing the right thing.”

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Marc Canter - one of the most consistent critics of walled gardens/closed systems and the ghost towns they become hits it again with a post about subscribing to people Well one clear way is to just ’subscribe’ to someone and then find out what they’re doing - wherever they are. ...

checking out thew0rd.com

Friday, June 29th, 2007

http://thew0rd.com/ the first post I find dives into another aggregator/platform Ziki http://thew0rd.com/2007/06/25/zikicom-releases-v2-of-their-digital-identity-management-suite/ these guys should check out the conversation Doc is leading in VRM http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "checking out thew0rd.com", url: "http://www.seanbohan.com/2007/06/29/checking-out-thew0rdcom/" });

Reinventing HotOrNot

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Great post from the personal blog of James Hong, founder of HotOrNot.com For the first 3.5 years, it was Jim and I working about 10 hours a week each, with the company earning many millions of dollars per year. Then 2 things changed, and we realized we had to change with them: 1) ...

QOTD - Warren Ellis - Brilliant

Friday, June 1st, 2007

I love print. I love magazines that commit and pay for long articles and long fiction. The web rewards neither approach. It’s a packeted medium, a surf medium. Short bursts are the way to go. The web isn’t a replacement medium — it’s *another” medium. (my bold) From his blogSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "QOTD ...

Digg PWNED????

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

Turns out Digg may have banned a user for posting a hack. Jay Adelson of Digg posts the reason here. Best story title so far: I'm thinking of a number... it's not my credit score Live by the community, get pwned by teh communitySHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Digg PWNED????", url: "http://www.seanbohan.com/2007/05/01/digg-pwned/" });

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us = Brilliant

Saturday, February 3rd, 2007

Awesome video telling/showing what Web2.0 is all about created by Anthropology Professior Michael Wesch. The video uses Web2.0 sites and technologies (like XML and RSS) to tell a short story using/embedded in the technologies that make it up. Thanks to Somwhat Frank for the pointer. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Web 2.0 … The Machine ...